ESS PCI Sound Cards?

Posted on 2010-07-03, 01:06

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by Jorpho

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I really ought to start liquidating some of my old PC "junk", but actually I'm pretty dependent on an ancient SB Live! at the moment, so I could stand to get an improvement there. So I stumbled upon this ancient little card today and scooped it up. It seems to be an ESS XG A31-H30, and it's PCI. …

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Re: Is it possible to extract fonts from old DOS games?

Posted on 2010-06-26, 06:25

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by Jorpho

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Given that the game was released for the Amiga at the same time, I reckon some of the graphics might be in the extremely common IFF/LBM format. Try opening each of the files in IrfanView, and see if anything gets recognized.

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Re: Windows 98 versus Windows 98SE? DOS compatibility differences?

Posted on 2010-05-17, 01:54

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by Jorpho

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Btw, I once had 98FE. I got so many blue screens when I used it, I've never ever been tempted to use it again so I never bothered to look at 98FE again Well, the key thing about 98SE is that it added support for WDM drivers. Some folks here have said that VXD drivers are preferable for performance …

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Re: Ultimate Spin Doctor (again!)

Posted on 2010-05-09, 02:45

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by Jorpho

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I am running Vista Home Premium. The key point in matters such as this is whether it's Vista 32 or 64-bit. I'm assuming it's 64-bit. If you're determined not to deal with virtualization, I suggest Googling for an InstallShield unpacker of one kind or another - there are plenty of freeware ones out …

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Re: Fantasy Empires CD-ROM version

Posted on 2010-05-08, 12:02

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by Jorpho

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Did you notice if running any of those commands caused the current directory to change? Did you run "save /q" after running Fantasy? One possibility that comes to mind is that the .bat file is running the commands too quickly, but even if there was a good way to add a delay between the execution of …

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Re: Fantasy Empires CD-ROM version

Posted on 2010-05-07, 23:37

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by Jorpho

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In Windows ME there is no DOS command prompt like in earlier Windows versions Windows ME only removed the ability to boot into real-mode MS-DOS. Every version of Windows has some kind of command prompt. If all else fails, just go to Start->Run and type "command". I tried however to execute the …

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Re: Fantasy Empires CD-ROM version

Posted on 2010-05-07, 03:07

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by Jorpho

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Jorpho wrote: What if you run it from the command prompt (after running "insti4cd.exe" and "save") ? Did you try this yet? I reckon one of those is supposed to change the current directory somehow.

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Re: Fantasy Empires CD-ROM version

Posted on 2010-05-03, 03:11

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by Jorpho

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Well... only store savegames in a selectable folder and a small file in the C: root folder ... that file does exist in the savegame folder that I specified as H:\SSI\FANTASY\ Isn't that your problem right there? Otherwise, how exactly are you running fantasy.exe? Are you double-clicking it in …

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Re: Getting simon the sorcerer t run in dosbox (DIGPAK Sound driver unloaded)

Posted on 2010-04-20, 22:40

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by Jorpho

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wd wrote: As robertmo said it works splendid in DOSBox Well, if Mr. Antnyhay is having that much trouble, it doesn't work that splendidly. Besides, the "fast" mode offered by ScummVM in this particular case apparently makes for a much more pleasant gaming experience.

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Re: Getting simon the sorcerer t run in dosbox (DIGPAK Sound driver unloaded)

Posted on 2010-04-20, 06:12

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by Jorpho

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Antnyhay wrote: Hello just got the dos box and trying to run Simon the sorcerer which of course is a ms dos game Actually, it works splendidly with ScummVM.

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Re: Looking for bit-perfect soundcard, soundfont support with midi games, digital output, sb16 and windows 9x compatible

Posted on 2010-04-09, 16:40

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by Jorpho

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Can it not be said that many MIDIs of the era were actually composed with the limited instrument sets available at the time in mind, such that they'll sound completely unlike (and much worse) than what the original composer intended if you try to play them with some needlessly-elaborate soundfont?

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Re: SimCity - which?

Posted on 2010-04-09, 16:36

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by Jorpho

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I hope something cool happens with the open-source Micropolis someday. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropolis_%28video_game%29

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Re: Jurassic-Park (OCEAN) no Sound Effects on AWE32 or compatible

Posted on 2010-04-06, 20:15

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by Jorpho

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Does it use the DOS4GW DOS extender? Someone was just mentioning that older versions of DOS4GW can be problematic with large amounts of RAM.

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Re: Jurassic-Park (OCEAN) no Sound Effects on AWE32 or compatible

Posted on 2010-04-06, 14:50

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by Jorpho

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I read in the manual that "sampled effects" are used when there is enough memory. I have plenty of RAM so I guess the game uses these sampled sound effects. I didn't notice this before. The game probably doesn't care that you have 92 MB of RAM; when the manual says "enough memory" it is probably …

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Re: Looking for bit-perfect soundcard, soundfont support with midi games, digital output, sb16 and windows 9x compatible

Posted on 2010-04-06, 07:01

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by Jorpho

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Yes I do render some midis into flac and/or mp3. But you can never stop playing with soundfonts when you got gigs to choose from. There are some commercial ones I have yet to try out but would love to if I had cash on me at the moment. I find it really hard to believe that a given MIDI can sound …

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Re: Looking for bit-perfect soundcard, soundfont support with midi games, digital output, sb16 and windows 9x compatible

Posted on 2010-04-06, 04:57

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by Jorpho

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Maybe I sound like a demanding asshole but I think it'd help others who especially wanna do midi remixes of old dos games and what not. If you want to do crazy high-quality remixes and recordings and whatnot, I say do that on one computer, and play your DOS games elsewhere. If you have some high- …

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Re: Jurassic-Park (OCEAN) no Sound Effects on AWE32 or compatible

Posted on 2010-04-05, 21:16

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by Jorpho

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But still, now for the real deal. I want to be able to play this without any emulation (e.g., on my legacy dos 6.22). Tomorrow I will look into the Slowdown utility called MoSlo, it's getting too late to mess around with floppy disks now. :pppt: This makes no sense. If you really want to play it " …

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Re: Looking for bit-perfect soundcard, soundfont support with midi games, digital output, sb16 and windows 9x compatible

Posted on 2010-04-05, 16:09

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by Jorpho

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Why the heck would you need a soundfont larger than 150 MB!? Anyway, I don't suppose the kx project drivers make any difference? And doesn't the AWE64's need for all that DOS PnP stuff make it somewhat less useful?

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Re: Shogo MAD on Win7

Posted on 2010-03-26, 18:01

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by Jorpho

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Are there still no convenient InstallShield unpackers for this kind of thing?

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Re: Searching for an old DOS game, name lost

Posted on 2010-03-25, 19:12

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by Jorpho

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Dr. Goo , perhaps?

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